The 38 Sounds in Direction is a pregnant audio installation, in form characterised by an absorbed and meditative feeling, demonstrating the great number of directions and attitudes that human beings are faced with.
Out of two sound-projectors, two voices are heard simultanepusly; one man´s voice and one woman´s voice. They echo each other. At regular intervals these voices proclaim the choice of directions with which we are recurrently confronted; unreservedly and without exhortation. The words that are read - with methodical and formal regularity - are randomly composited in groups of words. The 38 Sounds in Direction is a closed piece of text - without any literary ambitions - with no dissolutions.
The 38 Sounds in Direction is a balance act between the sound of a voice and silence/keeping silent. After every group of words follows compact silence; a suspension of silence. The voice is to be understood as a stand taken against the background of silence. A silence which is mechanically and physiologically interrupted by the sound of voices which represents a condition for percption; the silence is broken by the words with a person and purpose behind them. This is the silence which is found only in the human world and only for the human being, where the voice is the immediate result of the physical action; to speak.

The sound-projectors are distinguised by a wide frequency range and high efficiency, which represent the voice in a very distinct and clear way. The sound which is created conveys a palpable feeling of physical presence in the room.

38 Sounds in Direction was first played on Radio Pica, Barcelona, Spain, 1994.

Listen to the composition.